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Hospital. Rehab. Skilled nursing facility. Home. That’s how discharge works after an acute care episode, or how many patients and family members expect discharge to work. Some patients expect to be discharged straight home into the care of family and home health providers.

For patients on the care journey, moving from one point of care to another can be difficult to navigate. If expectations are not managed by health care providers, the journey becomes even more problematic, leading to additional complications with care.

You think you know what’s coming, and then it comes, and it’s not what you expected.

Kicking off the 2018 Home Care and Hospice Conference and Expo in Grapevine, Texas, this week, NAHC President Bill Dombi said his organization at first anticipated a minor year in terms of advocacy but true to the ever-changing weather of homecare, that wasn’t how things turned out.

The Alabama Durable Medical Equipment Association (ADMEA) held its annual convention July 25 and 26 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Hoover, Alabama. Suppliers from across the state attended the convention for education and policy updates. The program was fast-paced and packed with information.

In late 2015, news of wheelchair pedestrian incidents trended. What they said: Height matters. The consumer moves at a low, fixed, static height which does not line up well with today’s higher, larger vehicles.

Many drivers are in a hurry or distracted, and navigating crosswalks—to cross the street or cross the parking lot—is dangerous enough sans being seated. Now suppose a new product could make wheelchair users safer, so they can see and be seen.

Colleagueship shined at Medtrade Spring 2018 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, where the weather was quite fine. 

An aging country can’t rely solely on families, friends and volunteers to provide everything dependent elders need, however well supported they are.

When it comes to homecare, it can be hard to see the future (and sometimes even the present) clearly.

What can come from a sampling of highly engaged homecare professionals of varied backgrounds and expertise and gathered in a five-star vacation destination?